Odd Thomas Quotes - Page 3

...he looked as if nothing hard in the world had touched him...

In all our lives, however, there are many days when we die a little, when we are wounded by loss or failure, or by fear, or by seeing the suffering of others for whom we are able to offer only pity, for whom we are powerless to offer aid, we are beyond mercy.

Whatever happens here, trust your heart. It's as true as any compass.

Free will," she agreed, "our greatest gift, the thing that makes life worth living, in spite of all the anguish it brings.

Nothing supernatural has ever harmed me. My wounds and losses have all be at the hands of human beings...

Her stare was direct and unwavering, full of confidence earned from painful experience...

From all these friends, I could not escape learning some of the statistics that I preferred not to know. Forty-one people at the mall had been wounded. Nineteen had died. Everyone said it was a miracle that only nineteen perished. What has gone wrong with our world when nineteen dead can seem like any kind of miracle?

Hope, love and faith are in the waiting.

All death matters.""Only to the living.

Remember, there are cookies waiting here for you.

Evil travels the world in anonymity, its presence revealed only by the periodic consequences of its desires...

But the line between moral behavior and narcissistic self-righteousness is thin and difficult to discern

Then the clarifying thing happens, and what you need to do, what you must do, is not a question, not demand more revelation than what is given, be quiet in the face of it, quiet and grateful that it has been given to you to see this, to be for even a short time aware of the extraordinary layered depths and profound beauty of the world to which we mostly blind ourselves.

In twenty-one years, I have not considered changing to Todd. The bizarre course of my life suggests that Odd is more suited to me, whether it was conferred by my parents with intention or fate.

More likely, they would just cease to exist.""That's death.""No, it's different. Death leaves a corps.

Money and beauty are defenses against the sorrows of this world but neither can undo the past. Only time will conquer time. The way forward is the only way back to innocence and to peace.

Evil never dies. It just changes faces.

My only armor is my belief that life has meaning...

Be you and only you, which means be you and all the people you have loved...